when friends become family-CWD Friends for Life 2012i've been staring at a blank page and blinking cursor for a long while now. replaying the many scenes of last week.

the hugs, the tears, the laughter, the fist bumps and high fives, the D-mom insisting you take her crackers and makes you sit until you feel better, the eye rolls, the 3am conversations that don't quite make sense but mean the world, the inside jokes, the introductions that go like this "hi! i'm shay! great to finally meet you" *blank stare* *lightbulb moment* "oh you mean justsamechanges?".....

A specific type of pig cell could soon be transplanted into humans, according to a senior immunology researcher, reigniting the prospect of pig organs ultimately being used in life-saving operations. The cells most likely to be used first are islet cells from the pancreas, which produce insulin and could be transplanted to help some people with...

Ellen H Ullman, MSW's insight:

For years I supported xenotransplantation in hopes of restoring normoglycemia to my loved one with type 1 diabetes. As a vegan, I am so conflicted.

JDRF-funded clinical study of a drug called TUDCA looks to improve beta cell functioning in people recently diagnosed with T1D Until recently, much of type 1 diabetes (T1D) research has focused on suppressing the autoimmune system to prevent or reverse...

Boing Boing Hacking diabetes: the open artificial pancreas project Boing Boing In addition to these public projects, several developers have privately created their own artificial pancreas projects using Raspberry Pis and Android phones and...

Orgenesis Ltd., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Orgenesis Inc. , a leader in the emerging fields of cellular therapy and regenerative medicine, today announced that Orgenesis and Pall Corporation have received ...

When Doug Melton’s Harvard lab made the announcement last October that they had succeeded in turning human stem cells into functional beta cells, Melton, in a conversation with reporters, talked, too, about the other piece of the puzzle that might enable these cells to survive T1D’s autoimmune attack: encapsulation. Read more

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